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I think these only grow where it's nice and hot, a more tropical climate.I've never seen those plants before - how cool!! I'm sure they can't survive the arctic tundra winters around here.
I thought about that, too, painting a fairy among the elephant ears.This reminds me of your art. I wanna see Lepp among the ears!
Some weeds, like Dandelions, are not only edible, but medicinal. So there's plenty of reason to make peace.The lady who lives behind me has been weeding her garden off and on since 8 a.m.!! Not this chick - the weeds and I have made peace with each other.
Do you know the neighbor who lives at 19?
I wondered how long it would take before someone noticed. Number 19 is across the road. Odd and even numbers are on different sides of the road over here.
Nice to see they have grown more beautiful. Didn't know they were going to grow up to be sunflowers!
) from the apples. easy to make, peel and core, cook the apple down in a crock pot, nothing added, just apple and once cooked down, sauce...put it in containers and freeze, take out and eat whenever you want. the freezer is full of berries, stawberries both wild and farm-grown, wild raspberries, wild blackberries, wild blueberries...when i'm out in the garden i'll have to check out the plum tree that is actually in the neighbor's yard. tent worms came through the area about...ummm...might have been 2001? since that time the plum tree hadn't really produced plums but it is slowly making a comeback. plum jam is...yes...delicious! 
posted last weekend in the 'what did you do today' 'bout making a bunch of pickles & salsa from produce from the garden. pulled the last of the tomatoes out today, pulled the plants, pulled the wire cages...cooked up another batch of green tomato pickles (they're delicious!) and tomorrow will make some more salsa (opened one jar of the first batch--homemade salsa is you guessed it delicious!). the yellow beans don't seem to quit and i need to go out in a bit and pick the last of them before they get too punky. made a pile of dilly pickles forget how many jars exactly. these last will be for eating. still have some yellow squash we're waiting on, it's taking its time. have had a pile of cucumbers, picked half a dozen or so earlier and there's still flowers on some of the plants. i think this is the first time the tomatoes reached their potential this early. usually they are out there long after the threat of first frost comes and goes.
sometime in september we'll be making apple sauce (and other stuff
happy weekend, everyone! be safe!
Walter Oobleck -- when my parents would come for their yearly visit to FL, they would bring a basket of NJ tomatoes-- they are acid free. Mom would pick them green, and once here I would place several in brown paper grocery sacks. Doesn't take long for them to ripen just as if it had ripened on the vine. Let me know how you're turn out.We'll have to do that when we run out! The last container of apple sauce is still in the fridge, just a tad left, maybe neither one of us wants to be the one to eat the last of last year's crop. Apples look good this year...that one tree grew three apples out of a dozen or so blossoms it had but in years to come we'll see more from it.
Doesn't look like the plum tree has any plums this year, either. Wasn't wearing my glasses though so maybe. Here's a pic of the garden last week and one from today, after pulling the tomato plants and wire cages. The onions were on the nearest edge and there's a bag hanging under the canopy roof, felt like about 20 pounds of white, purple & yellow. There's carrots, cukes, yellow squash left out there, some lettuce and spinach. Seems strange for the garden to be winding down before first frost. We picked a pile of yellow and green beans from three rows...the garden is only, what, maybe 25' wide? I forget how many beans we've gotten, been eating beans since about the start of August, same with the tomatoes and cukes, lettuce. Onions even longer.
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be great if all those green cherry tomatoes ripened. i've heard of people putting them in a brown paper bag, tomatoes. when i put green tomatoes on the shelf, the "dark" side of the tomato ripens first and then i turn it around so the side that had been exposed to the most light, still not as red as the "dark" side, ripens too. might try the paper-bag trick with the green cherry. green tomato pickles in the pot...yummy! they go especially well with spaghetti, but i had some tonight with a chicken sub from subway. guy making the sandwiches and the salad for my wife did an outstanding job...wife commented on how good everything was, too. nice when people take pride in their work.
have a super weekend, everyone!
